Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-10-05

Hgure-head OF servants, for the purpose Of
carrying out the will OF the people, as ex-
the law never SO bad an, executive depart
ment must execute II and cannot change
An instance of criminal carelessnuess
took place two or three miles from Tyler,
Mimi, which will undoubtedly result in tho
death OF James Miller, q boy aged fifteen
named Most Peters were hunting mink with
revolvers and Miller shot one. Before
starting to pick up the mink he handed his
revolver to Peters. The boys were standing
several rods apart whom Peters asked Miller.
tho mink, and Miller told him to shoot all
10 wanted to; there wal nothing it. Peters
hred, the ball entering Miller's left lung and
lodging in his backbone. He was brought
TO Tyler and placed under the care of DR..
stricken parents to shoot him and end his
suffering. Public sentiment 10 decidedly
unfavorable to Peters for tho apparent Grim
inal carslessness of the act.
James Cardinal Gibbons, Arch
bishop of Baltimore was accorded .
stately, welcome at ct: Paul, when no
Of Bishop Ireland. In addition to residents
of st. q there were many of the Catholic
clergy and laity of the State, in the city to
do him honor. In the evening the city was
brilliantly Illuminated as a token to the
distinguished guest within its gates: At
the Banquet at the Hotel Ryan Bishop
Ireland presided and the tables were filed
with courtly and representative citizens.
An address was delivered by Judge VIM.
L. Kelly which was eloquently responded to
by the Cardinal. Bishop Ireland, Senator
Davis, 1t. Gov. Rice. Hon. W. p. Murray,
President Northrup other gentlemen
participated in the rich intellectually of the
occasion.
The fund for Miss Mary Sylvester
at Minneapolis. amounts to 81 ,2s6.75, and
at her request Judge Lochren has appointed
DR.. Kilvington, A. J. Blethen and Platt B.
Walker, trustees of the fund and they have
accepted the trust. She is only 10 years Of
age. and is by no means out Of danger from
her injuries. The doctors believe hat there
is great danger of her never being able to
use her right limb again. Should she re-
cover, however, her desire is to spend a
year or two at school, fitting herself for
some business occupation. The trustees
appointed will see to it that the best possible
results are obtained for Miss Sylvester from
the money donated.
The North Dakota Fair at Grand
Forks was full of interest and very success
full. Among the features of the last day
was the marriage in the judges stand of
c. D. Vernon, of Mimic, and Mrs. Frances
Ashton 9 OF Grand nd + Forks: s,ayor D; N:
costly presents, besides the $50 prize were
given, after which every director kissed the
bride as they passed out. The affair
created quite an amusement. Next was the
five mile running race between Miss Eccles,
Of Northield, and Miss Poole, of Mouse
River, for $3.50. The race was won by Miss
Poole in II minutes, ~ seconds. A race
between tho same ladies has been arranged
for Devils Lake.
Near midnight, Tuesday, Sheriff
Richter of Ramsey county, Mimi, discover
ed tho presence Of a man in The cellar OF
the st. Paul Jail n presuming the person
to the man to halt, but was not obeyed and
fred, the shot resulting in death. The per-
son proved to be, Tim Graham, colored, ago
IS, married, who until two months ago had
been q court house ~janitor. How he got
into tho cellar or Why he wa there is I'M
known. The Sheriff deplores the unfortu-
nate incident, but the act was done in the
discharge of his duty, his anxiety quickened
by a very recent attempt of prisoners to
escape from the Jail in his care and keep
ing.
In response to an order received
from the general land Office authorizing
him 10 open to settlement under the general
land laws all lands in tho Fergus
Falls, Mimi, district within the indemnity
limits of the grant to the Northern Pacific
Railway Company heretofore withdrawn
for the benefit 81 said company, Register
Cowing of the Fergus Falls land Office, an
nounces that fling will be received on and
after Dec. l. In tho district covered by the
Fergus Falls land Office frcm $4,000 to 10000
acres will be opened to settlement. This
entire acreage is in Otter Tail and Douglas
counties. The larger part of it is in Otter
Tail county, probably $4,000 acres.
The crop report published by this
weeks Farmers Review, Of Chicago, has
tho following: Wisconsin-Reports from
fourteen counties estimate the yield of corn
at 50 bushels per acre; oats, 81 bushels; po-
tatoes, SO bushels. Scarcely any corn on
hand. Minnesota-Nine counties report
the estimated yield of corn at 81 bushels
per acre: spring wheat 9x bushels; oats 81
bushels; potatoes 50 bushels Iowa-Re-
ports from 81 counties estimate the yield of
corn at 321 bushels per acre; spring wheat,
101sbushels; oats, 81 bushels; potatoes Al
bushels; per cent of old corn on hand, 62-3.
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